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262. Syneches fuscipennis, sp. nov. 



<5 . Head with upper eye-facets bright reddish brown, lower 

 ones dark coffee-brown ; vertex blackish ; frons very small, dark, 

 shining ; face very narrow, dark grey ; proboscis brownish yellow, 

 barely reaching as far as tip of antennae ; palpi moderately long, 

 brownish yellow ; antennae brownish yellow, 3rd joint browri, 

 with a long bristle on upperside and very long dark arista which 

 is yellowish at base ; occiput blackish, very concave, with some 

 long hairs on lower half. Thorax subglobular, dorsum hemi- 

 spherical, dark brown, moderately shining, almost bare; scutellum 

 concolorous, with a row of stiff hairs on hind margin. Abdomen 

 dull black, with moderately long and soft black pubescence; 

 genitalia concolorous. Leys : coxae, anterior femora (except at 

 tips), hind femora, and tarsi black; remainder of legs yellow. 

 Pubsscence rather long and moderately dense ; a row of longer 

 hairs on upper and outer sides of anterior tibiae, nnd three long 

 bristles on outer side of middle tibia?; pubescence on underside 

 of hind femora a little longer, and on hinder side of hind tibiae 

 towards tips conspicuously longer and denser ; a row of 6-7 short 

 blunt teeth below hind femora on apical half. 'Wings greyish 

 brown ; venation normal ; halteres yellowish, with black clubs. 



Length, about 3| mm. 



Described from a single c? in the Indian Museum from Tale- 

 wadi, near Castle Rock, N. Kanara Distr., 3-10. x. 1916 (Kemp). 



Genus SYNDYAS, Lw. 

 Syndyas, Loew, Ufv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xiv, p. 369 (1857). 



GEXOTYPE, Syndyas opaca, Lw. (S. Africa) ; by Coquillett's 

 designation (1910). 



The character in which this genus differs from Hybos is the 

 indistinctness of that portion of the 4th longitudinal vein dividing 

 the two basal cells. From Syneches it differs in the same way, 

 and by the origin of the 2nd vein being more remote from the 

 humeral cross-vein. 



No specimen of the genus has come before me, only one Asiatic 

 species having been recorded. 



263. Syndyas parvicellulata, Bezzi. 



Si/ndi/as parvicellulata, Bezzi, Ann. Mus. Hung, ii, p. 321, fig. 1 



(1904). 



$ . Head round ; eyes above antenna contiguous, barely 

 separated below by an extremely narrow shining black space 

 upper facets hardly larger than lower ones; proboscis short 

 horizontal ; palpi black, slender, bare ; ocellar bristles yellowish 

 very slender ; antenna) wholly black, 3rd joint oval, acuminate 

 with rather long, very thin arista. Thorax moderately convex 

 very bright, with whitish hairs ; dorso-central bristles very wenk, 



